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MUSE Project Acronyms and Abbreviations The following table is intended to help you find your way around the MUSE project:
Acronym meaning remarks
AI | Action Item |
ADC | Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector |
AIT | Assembly, Integration and Testing |
AIP | Astrophys. Institute Potsdam |
AO | Adaptive Optics |
AOT | ESO Adaptive Optics Team consortium partner |
ATH | Auxiliary Telescope Hall |
BFD | Back Focal Distance |
CAN | Controller Area Network |
CCD | Charge Coupled Devices |
CDR | Conceptual Design Review |
CFC | Continuous Flow Cryostat |
CGR | Critical Gate Review validation of the complete design before manufacture |
CRAL | Centre Recherche Astron. de Lyon |
CLG | Calibration Light Guides |
CLS | Calibration Light Sources |
CU | Calibration Unit |
CUE | Calibration Unit Electronics |
CTE | Coeffcient of Thermal Expansion |
DoF | Degrees Of Freedom |
DV | Detector Vessel |
ECU | Electronic Control Unit |
EE | Ensquared Energy |
ETH | Eidgen. Tech. Hochschule Zurich |
ESO | European Southern Observatory |
FDR | Final Design Review |
FLW | Field Lens Window |
FMA | Focusing Mirror Array |
FO | Fore Optics |
FOV | Field of View |
FS | Field Splitter |
FSep | Field Separator |
GALACSI | (MUSE adaptive optics system) |
IAG | Institute for Astrophysics G”ttingen |
ICD | Interface Control Document |
ICE | Instrument Control Electronics |
ICH | Instrument Control HardwareS |
ICS | Instrument Control Software |
IDA | Image Dissector Array |
IDS | Instrument Detector System |
I/F | Interface |
IFU | Integral Field Unit |
IQ | Image Quality |
IMS | Instrument Main Structure |
ISS | Image Slicer Subsystem |
ISSTAT | ISS Tests and Alignment Tool |
LAOMP | Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LATTP | Lab.d’Astrophys,Obs.Midi-Pyrenees |
LCU | Local Control Unit |
LN2 | Liquid nitrogen |
MAIT | Manufact., Assembly, Integrat. Testing |
MIA | Manufacturing Item Acceptance |
MUSE | Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer |
NA | Not Applicable |
NAR | Nasmyth Adapter/Rotator |
NFM | Narrow Field Mode |
NGC | Next Generation Controller |
NP | Nasmyth Platform |
NTCCD | Next Generation Technology CCD |
ODT | ESO Optical Detector Team consortium partner |
PAC | Preliminary Acceptance Chile |
PAE | Preliminary Acceptance Europe |
PBS | Product Breakdown Structure |
PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
PGR | Preliminary Gate Review Validation of feasibility and performance (similar to PDR) |
PM | Progress Meeting |
PSF | Point Spread Function |
PSM | Pupil Slit Mask |
RD | Reference Document |
SCP | Service Connection Points |
SPS | Spectrograph System |
SGR | Specification Gate Review Validation of input data. First global design and analysis |
SRO | Splitting and Relay Optics |
S/S | Sub System |
TBC | To Be Confirmed |
TBD | To Be Defined/Determined |
UT | Unit Telescope |
VLT | Very Large Telescope |
VCS | Vacuum Cryogeny System |
VPHG | Volume Phase Holographic Grat. |
WFM | Wide Field Mode |
wrt | With respect to |
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